Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme) / Pablo Picasso
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1994/1.68
- Title
- Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme)
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Artist Nationality
- Spanish
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- February 28, 1949
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation
- Style/Group/Movement
- Cubist
- Inscription
- Signed upper right: 28.2.49/Picasso
- Dimensions
- 41.4 cm x 33.3 cm (16 5/16 in. x 13 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- portrait
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- Bust portrait of woman. Her hair is brown, shoulder length, and curls at the bottom. Her high-collared blouse has off-white and light blue vertical stripes. She looks directly at the viewer
- Subject Matter
- Portrait by Picasso of his lover, Françoise Gilot. The portraits of her usually depict Gilot with a sharp, narrow face that recalls portraits of Spanish princesses by Diego Velasquez. Completed on February 28, 1949, one month before the birth of Picasso and Gilot’s second child, Paloma.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 865 x 1083
- File Size
- 77 KB
- Record
- 1994/1.68
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"Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme); Pablo Picasso." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1994-sl-1.68/1994_1.68.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
